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# you are bringing innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and its inhabitants
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Blood is a metonym for violent death, and to bring blood on someone is to make them guilty of violent death. AT: "you are making yourselves and this city and its inhabitants guilty of the violent death of an innocent person" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# this city and its inhabitants
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These are two ways of speaking of the same people, perhaps first as a group and then as individuals. The city is a metonym for the people in the city. AT: "all the people in the city and every one of the people who live here" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# for your ears
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The ear is a metonym for what the ear hears. AT: "for you to hear" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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